Three new contributing editors join us this week. Joseph Epstein, the literary critic and American Scholar editor who wrote our recent cover story on arts policy, will contribute a monthly essay beginning in September. David Gelernter, the polymath poet-painter-computer scientist-Yale professor (whose book 1939 is just out in paperback, and you should read it), will serve as our art critic, though art will not be his only subject. And First Things associate editor J. Bottum (the J stands for Joseph, Jody for short, but don't tell him we told you) becomes our fiction critic. We welcome them aboard, and trust you do too.